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Welcome to the La Fayette Home page. The La Fayette Home page provides as much information as possible on La Fayette. Knowing La Fayette’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within La Fayette’s Home page, you will also find La Fayette’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

La Fayette has a population of 155. 57.4% of La Fayette’s inhabitants are Male, and 42.6 are female. 30.8% of La Fayette is married and 89.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $44,961, and the average rent is $475. Household median income in La Fayette is $34,792, and the individual median income is $33,625. La Fayette’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%), Hispanic(3.2%).


La Fayette (named after Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, pronounced locally "Lay - fay - et") is a village in Stark County, Illinois. It is located south of Kewanee off Route 78 on Route 17|IL-17 (Madison Street). The population was 223 at the 2010 census, down from 227 in 2000. It is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.


Once a prominent strip coal mine and farming village with; a general store, high school(until 1970), hotel, bank, grain elevator, train depot, and many other features and amenities. Once the coal mines shut down and railroad was removed in the early 1980s, it slowly became a low income and high poverty village with many people moving away and it eventually diminished to the hollow shell of what it once was.


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